User profile: letsciencedecide

My prior comment did not seek any sypathy for Faith Lutheran - no question Palo had the better team. The comment chain is about honoring a coach. Based on the comment from the former Palo parent - the team did just what the former coach would have wanted. Sorry for the families lose, but his passing will be better for high school football.

Hate Palo? No! Hate any football program with the lack of honor that Palo exhibited - every day of my life.

There was no honor in the way Palo played last night. Honor is not defined by winning or loosing. Palo exihibited the worse level of sportsmanship that I have seen in a long time. One player ejected early for throwing punches followed by a total of at least 5 unsportsman penalties - and those were the ones that were called. It was a shame, Palo has some real talent, but that talent is overshawdowed by their total LACK of honor. It is likely though that they played how they were taught, I place the blame on the coaches. Were the kids running up the score? No, the coaches are responsible for leaving in the first team until the forth quarter.

If banks are willing to write down a mortgage shouldn't they also be willing to write down a car loan? So the minute we drive that new car off the lot and it loses 20% of its value the bank should just let us have a new loan structure. Should grocery stores refund us money when our food goes bad after a few weeks and becomes worthless? How about our clothing, last years stuff is out of style - who is going to refund our money? Shouldn't we be protected from all our stupid purchases? Hell no, and banks should not be writing down mortgages!

Why do we assume the value of houses should be guaranteed to go up? We accept that very other major consumer purchase that we make immediately starts loosing value (even if we buy it on time).

This whole mess continues to ignor the fact that most of these people agreed to their loans - and most have not changed their financial circumstances - they just don't like the fact that their value has gone down - well boo hoo to you.

Be responsible!

The Yucca Mountain Project was never about safety. It has been governed by politics since the beginning. Yes, as a Yucca insider I will admit that Nevada got the short straw because they were politically weak - But that decision has nothing to do with whether the site is suitable or not - Yucca Mountain is suitable (other sites could very well have been suitable also). But please, don't try to argue that the site is being stopped because it is unsafe - there is too much real science to demonstrate otherwise.

This is just another example of politicians putting off decisions (and costs) to future generations to solve - a "not during my administration" cop out. For 50 years this country has put off a decision, Yucca Mountain was an answer for permanent disposal, NOT TEMPORARY STORAGE - yes, there are other answers but Congress picked Yucca Mountain as the path 20 years ago. I look forward to the wisdom to come from Washington on the new path. I look forward to how Washington will pay back the $20 billion collected to pay for the repository and the untold Billions in legal damages for canceling the program.

Unfortunately they have awoken too late. The project is hemorrhaging the brain trust of scientists and engineers that have been involved for decades - we can't just sit back and hope for more funding - we received the layoff notices and are looking for work.

This is Harry's plan to lower our taxes - if we are out of work, we don't have to pay as much in income taxes.

Harry has shown just how much he cares about the careers of all the scientists and engineers and is also being extremely helpful - he has added a link on his web page to the Nevada unemployment office.